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A shipbuilding subcontractor company is victim of a ransomware attack.

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
29	August	2023	Netherlands	Industry	Virus/Ransomware

Summary

The victim identified a cyber security incident involving an unauthorized third party access.

Contingency plans were put into action by the victim to continue operations, and digital investigations were conducted.

Based the information provided by the company, it could not be determined that the attacking party actually exfiltrated data from the digital systems of the victim.

Victim

Kendrion

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

Lockbit 3.0

Origin

Cybercrime

Main impact

Availability

References

https://www.kendrion.com/en/about-kendrion/investor-relations/press-releases/press-releases-detail-page/kendrion-experiences-cyber-security-incident/

Recommendations to Industry to reduce Virus/Ransomware risks:

Map, understand, patch and secure your exposed assets on the Internet.
Implement email filtering systems to detect and block phishing emails.
Train your organisation, personnel regularly against these threats.
Install efficient Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools.
Work with your CSIRT organization to better understand the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures used by threat actors.
Monitor your IT and OT systems to quickly detect potential pre-ransomware activity.
Implement an efficient offline backup policy.
Encrypt all sensitive data to avoid further data leaks.

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